Keith Waterhouse proposed him for membership of Gerry's Club, another haunt of actors and Soho types.
He knows, of course, that Ms. Wintour proposed him for the job, and that Condé Nast Publications, Vogue's parent, is an exhibition underwriter.
During a concert at Madison Square Garden in September this year, Billy Joel paused to pay tribute to Cocker, surprising listeners by commenting that he was "not very well right now" and proposing him for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Most often they mention a charged quality that Mr. Olyphant shares with the character, an understated intensity that animated previous projects like "Deadwood" but has "reached its sort of apotheosis in Raylan," said Mr. Landgraf, who first proposed him for "Justified".
Former mayor Cyril Marsburg who proposed him for the honour, admitted that he has never actually met the great man, but still felt let down by his failure to respond although he hopes he will stay.
In 1992, his astronomy colleagues proposed him for membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
(Later, Grant himself would remember that concerns over Morton's ill health alone had kept him from proposing him for Chief Justice.
When Elgar was struggling for recognition in the 1890s, Stanford had been supportive of his younger colleague, conducting his music, putting him forward for a Cambridge doctorate, and proposing him for membership of the exclusive London club, the Athenaeum.
According to a new book entitled Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma, by Barbara Will, Stein publicly proclaimed her admiration for Hitler during the 1930s, proposing him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
